To be a Feminist is to be a Vegan

It’s unjust for humans to steal milk that was designed by nature to nourish growing babies of another species. For the life of me, I can’t figure out why anybody would want to drink cow’s milk, perfectly designed for baby calves. Cow’s milk provides the calf with the nutrients to grow to 450 pounds in just a year. A cow’s breast milk is much higher in protein than the requirements for humans and provides everything calves need for rapid growth. How could anything that was not meant for us by nature, and is so disrespectful to other animals, possibly be healthful for humans?

Humans have no physical need to consume products that are the result of horrific practices such as tail docking, dehorning, branding, castration, rape racks, induced calving, artificial insemination, painful procedures performed without pain relief, embryo transfers and hormone treatments resulting in 3-6 calves instead of the usual single birth, separation of mother from newborn, and killing infants.

It is becoming increasingly clear that there is perhaps even more suffering involved in milk, cheese and egg consumption than flesh consumption, therefore choosing to be vegetarian (for ethical reasons) is not logical. Abstaining from ALL animal products is the ethical stance that gives basic minimal respect due to sentient beings.

Oppression is oppression. Violence is violence. The species of the victim is irrelevant. The way I see it, to be an animal rights activist is to be a vegan. To be an abolitionist is to be a vegan. To be a nonspeciesist is to be a vegan. To be an environmentalist is to be a vegan. To be a peace-loving-pacifist is to be a vegan. To be an ethicist is to be a vegan. AND YES - to be a feminist is to be a vegan.

One can be both a vegan and a feminist, or one can be a vegetarian and a feminist, one can be an omnivore and a feminist, also one could be vegan and not a feminist, one could be vegetarian yet not feminist and others can be omnivore and not a feminist either.

There are others who are doctrinaire ideologues who believe that their worldview and only their worldview speaks the Truth. They negate all others as in their minds there is nothing else but their 'truth.' They stand atop a self-erected pedestal where there is no room for anything else but their viewpoint as the true one. They proclaim that all others are mere hypocrites. Their eyes, ears and all other sense are closed, clamped firmly shut like a Venus Flytrap. Nothing outside their world exists for them.

Meanwhile, the rest of the world moves on, confident, open and sharing in the acceptance of a diversity of ideas and ideals. Those who proclaim that they are the one and only are swept aside by the tides of history and free thought that includes and embraces all ideas.

Feminism is an ideal. No one owns it, it is not exclusive and all of us embrace it be we omnivore, vegetarian or vegan. Feminism excludes no one who is open to the world in all of its diversity.

The mare has AI, then eight days later her uterus is flushed out and the fluid examined for an embryo, which is then placed in another mare whose cycle is at the right stage. It's a very expensive method to breed a foal from a top competition mare while she is still competing. Super fitness and pregnancy don't go well together in horses. I've had to explained to me while on a tour of the place where it is carried out, and the mares look very happy to me!

Years ago a much-loved mare was the light of my life, which means I can identify equine emotions far more easily that I can with some other species.

I was intrigued by the stallion's 'sex toys' which they apparently soon get used to. Then I heard of AI being used with giant pandas and ever since have been trying to imagine a panda in the place of a stallion.... Somehow I just can't imagine it!

Sad it is that there are people who are willing to call it IN VITRO fertilization and they're fine with that for humans, but they have such a severe case of anthropomorphism that it is seen as rape in the animal world.
That really does trivialize actual rape and makes light of the consequences.

** I'm glad Angel Flinn has the frankness to say: "To be a Feminist is to be a Vegan" **

Ah yes - frankness. It can be such an endearing quality. As long as you remember that frankness is only an expression of one's opinion and NOT a statement of facts. You can quote Singer as much as you want. He still only wrote about HIS opinion, not facts. Keeping that in mind, I don't understand why you'd quote someone else's OPINION so extensively.

Feminism and veganism are two separate and different entities.

Does it not strike you as rather fascist for someone to INSIST that you must be one thing to be the other?

In another post you said ** Let us see who the hypocrite is.**

How do you propose that be determined? What are the qualifications of a hypocrite? What will be the subject or object of this hypocrisy? Inquiring minds want to know.

Some folk, like Marilyn and myself, cannot live a healthy life on a vegan diet so we are obliged to be omnivores.

It seems to me that if you want to be a vegan, you focus on animals not ending up in slaughterhouses to feed you, but you don't dwell on the deaths of wildlife made homeless for your food to be grown, nor bother too much about your food miles.

If you have to be an omnivore, you focus on the wildlife that can thrive if you choose your sources of meat with care, plus the reduced food miles, but once you are satisfied that the farmer cared enough about his animals to be careful about his choice of slaughterhouse, you don't dwell a lot on slaughterhouses and the like.

You can't have it both ways. Each to his own! All that remains is for the two sides to get on with each other, and to band together against factory farms.

You seem incapable of comprehending that your own hands are guiding the knife...or you just refuse to look at yourself and accept it because you're in denial and think that what's not on your dinner plate matters more than what SHOULD be in your heart.